On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 12:44:15AM +0200, Luc MAIGNAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 34 lines which said:
> * if the pc pings the external internet address of the router, it works fine > (ping succedded) > * if the pc tries to ping a host on the internet from its name : the > corresponding ip address is found immediately (so dns of my isp is reached), > but it cannot ping the address. > A TRACEROUTE gives the gateway address (my router), and after only '*' Obviously, there is no masquerading at all. The DNS works because bind on your router is relaying at the application layer. > What can be happen ? iptables -t nat -L POSTROUTING to see what's going on. (or the equivalent if you use ipchains) Also, post the actual command line you use.

